Virtual reality & the metaverse
Vox’s coverage of virtual reality and the metaverse.
The keynote and 150 talks are streaming this week.
Join Recode for live coverage on Wednesday.
Older analog technologies provide the kind of tactile physical experience that a purely digital world has started to remove.
Facebook, HTC and Intel, among others.
“I will come to this with a 56-year-old head and lots of ideas about the ways that other things are done.”
The new camera can also shoot video in six degrees of freedom, which is great for VR.
“Spaces” is Facebook’s first attempt at social VR.
2015 was a big year.
Luckey was the face of Oculus, but ran into some trouble last fall.
Virtual reality would totally change the show’s writing style, Mandel says on Recode Decode.
“Software can figure it out,” says the former Microsoft CEO, now owner of the LA basketball team.
It’s looking to bridge the old world of entertainment with the new world of content.
STRIVR is changing the way athletes prepare to play the world’s most physical sports.
In a first, Fox News will broadcast the game’s top plays in 360-degree virtual reality in near real-time.
Barra left Xiaomi on Monday. Now he’s joining Facebook.
Oculus paid for the video in the hope that POTUS can help bring VR mainstream.
The companies aren’t sharing deal terms.
Brian Wallace left the VR company last month.
Ralph Osterhout has spent years making augmented reality tech for military and business customers.
We have a big opportunity right now to open the doors and make sure VR, AR and AI are more inclusive.
VR will show us things we can’t get anywhere else.
In this video of his appearance at An Evening with Code Mobile, Cohen says mobile will bring VR to mainstream consumers.
But if you want something closer to a Holodeck experience, buy an expensive PC instead.
The first headset ships today, but Google’s real goal is to put Android at the center of VR.
“I just like to build things. I don’t really care whether it’s a technology company or whether it’s a television show or whether it’s a movie or whatever it is.”
Limited tickets are still available for the Santa Clara, Calif., event.
It’s the latest in a series of moves the chipmaker has made into sports and VR.
The videos will be available on YouTube and Google’s new VR headset, Daydream.
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“I wanted to create an experience that would make you want to stay there, and you’d be disappointed when I pull the [VR] headset off.”
Instead, Esmail says on the latest Recode Decode, VR should be one of many mediums for modern storytellers.
The event will also feature Speakable CEO Jordan Hewson and Zipline founder Keller Rinaudo.
They won’t be free, but they will be ad-free.
Kutcher, who’s also a tech investor, acts in the Netflix sitcom “The Ranch.”
Six Flags has added Samsung virtual reality systems to rides at a dozen theme parks nationwide.
The “Swingers” actor and “Iron Man” director is spearheading an interactive VR film called “Gnomes & Goblins.”
Unlike the Oculus Rift, the new headset won’t require cables or tethers.
A VC straps on his headset and hunts for opportunity and potential in the AR/VR entertainment landscape.
The $79 device is just the first move to turn Android into the de facto operating system for virtual reality.
AR, he says, is “far more interesting and promising — for technology and, really, for humanity.”